Mr Heseltine, from Holmfirth, said: “Since I retired from the police in March 2013 to launch the magazine I have been really busy with the magazine which has recently just celebrated its first year anniversary.

“As Holmfirth is now the place where I live I want to make the town my base for future events.”

While still a serving officer, he launched a national police database of UFO sightings and has hundreds of records of bizarre incidents, including some that were witnessed by dozens of different policemen and women at the same time.

In the last few months, Mr Heseltine has been lecturing in Melbourne and Sydney before filming four episodes of the Sky TV series Close Encounters, in Toronto.